"Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling has big plans for the Boy Who Lived. Via Facebook, she says she will collaborating with British producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender on a play that will explore the orphan's life before he discovered his role is the wizarding world.

"Over the years I have received countless approaches about turning Harry Potter into a theatrical production, but Sonia and Colin’s vision was the only one that really made sense to me, and which had the sensitivity, intensity and intimacy I thought appropriate for bringing Harry's story to the stage," Rowling writes. "After a year in gestation it is exciting to see this project moving on to the next phase. I’d like to thank Warner Bros. for their continuing support in this project."

While the book focuses on Harry's life at No. 4 Privet Drive, it will feature "some of our favorite characters" from the Harry Potter books. (Let's hope that means characters beyond the Dursleys and Aunt Marge.)

Rowling will co-produce the show and work with a writer — as yet not hired — on the play, but she will not write the script herself. Friedman's producing credits include the mega-hit musical "The Book of Mormon," and Callendar produced the late Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy" with Tom Hanks.